{"id":184,"date":"2004-07-08T11:12:33","date_gmt":"2004-07-08T18:12:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/antone.geckotribe.com\/alpha-gecko\/2004\/07\/08\/css-zen-garden\/"},"modified":"2006-03-25T09:15:02","modified_gmt":"2006-03-25T16:15:02","slug":"css-zen-garden","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zeta.geckotribe.com\/alpha-gecko\/css-zen-garden\/","title":{"rendered":"CSS Zen Garden"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>No design blog would be complete without a reference to Dave Shea's <a href=\"http:\/\/www.csszengarden.com\/\">css Zen Garden<\/a>. The CSS Zen Garden is an experiment in just how much the design of a website can be controlled with CSS. Shea created a webpage, and invited designers to submit stylesheets to alter its appearance. As of today, the site features 329 designs, each of which applies a different stylesheet and images to the unmodified web page. The variety in the designs is tremendous, effectively hilighting the power of CSS.<\/p>\n<p>After perusing the Garden, I had the idea to create a similar site with one major difference: designers are only allowed to alter the stylesheet--no new images may be added. The purpose of this page (the <a href=\"http:\/\/css.geckotribe.com\/monastery\/\">CSS Trappist Monastery<\/a>) is to focus on text-based design, ensuring that images are not being used as a crutch.<\/p>\n<p>Anyone interested in modern <i>useful<\/i> web design techniques (bleeding edge technology that aren't widely supported are discouraged) would do well to peruse the Garden.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>No design blog would be complete without a reference to Dave Shea's css Zen Garden. The CSS Zen Garden is an experiment in just how much the design of a website can be controlled with CSS. Shea created a webpage, and invited designers to submit stylesheets to alter its appearance. As of today, the site...<br \/>[<a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/zeta.geckotribe.com\/alpha-gecko\/css-zen-garden\/\">read more<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-184","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-css"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zeta.geckotribe.com\/alpha-gecko\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/zeta.geckotribe.com\/alpha-gecko\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/zeta.geckotribe.com\/alpha-gecko\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zeta.geckotribe.com\/alpha-gecko\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zeta.geckotribe.com\/alpha-gecko\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=184"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/zeta.geckotribe.com\/alpha-gecko\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zeta.geckotribe.com\/alpha-gecko\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=184"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zeta.geckotribe.com\/alpha-gecko\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=184"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zeta.geckotribe.com\/alpha-gecko\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=184"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}